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Posted By: wabigoon The Old Tractors? - 02/21/17
What do you still have?

What did you run back when?

What do you recall about the old machines?

Posted By: WayneShaw Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/22/17
My Dad's uncle bought a B Allis Chalmers in 1948. Just about every farmer in the area bought one, must have been a good salesman making rounds! I sold it a couple years ago, sadly, I didn't have the time or space to enjoy it anymore.
Posted By: 5sdad Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/22/17
The Farmall hundred series and hundred-50 series were the tractors of my youth. I still think that they were not only the most attractive tractors, but also stand as representatives of a time when everything was of a more sedate pace and appropriate proportion. (Back to my cave now.)
Posted By: stantdm Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/22/17
I have a Oliver 550 gas that I use for pulling my weed sprayer and grading the driveway. It has been a very reliable tractor over the years. It is a 1963 year and I am the second owner.

Posted By: earlybrd Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/22/17
I run a TO35 ferguson I believe 1959 to cut hay and square bale with
Posted By: blanket Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/22/17
I still have a 1948 8n Ford. Grew up on AC WD45
Posted By: rockinbbar Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/22/17
Ran a big old FarmAll many miles. The kind with the two narrow front tires.

Makes me grateful for four wheel drive, cabs, and a/c! laugh
Posted By: hanco Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
I have a 1953 jubilee sitting out back
Posted By: huntsman22 Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
prove it.....
Posted By: 10gaugemag Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
This and an old H sit on dads place. Easy life as mowing/food plot tractors.

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Posted By: rockinbbar Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
Originally Posted by huntsman22
prove it.....


laugh
Posted By: blanket Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
never ever heard of anyone bragging about a Ford tractor, but most of us have had one
Posted By: wabigoon Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
Still have the NAA, with loader.
I could run that when I was nine years old. I was able to rid the farm of a 9000 about our years back.
My collection of vintage Farmalls is still using space however.
Posted By: blanket Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
Ford tractor with a loader, would let my 7 year old daughter run one. Would have it's ass in the air if you tried to pick anything up
Posted By: wabigoon Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
blanket, you make me think of an interview with the knuckle ball pitcher being scouted in high school.

"Hey, I did not just have a knuckle ball, I had a good knuckle ball".
I could, and run that tractor, and loader well.
Posted By: blanket Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
exactly
Posted By: wabigoon Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
And, blanket, I did flame out early.
Posted By: blanket Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/24/17
must have missed something, but I am a slow farm boy
Posted By: JamesJr Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/25/17
Originally Posted by blanket
never ever heard of anyone bragging about a Ford tractor, but most of us have had one



Never had one of the little Fords, such as a 8N or Jubilee, or as they were known here as a red belly, grey belly, or such. My father in law, who was a Deere man, said the little Fords were okay for gathering eggs on. But, have owned Fords in 5600, 6700, and 7700 series. I run New Hollands now. Still like that blue paint.
Posted By: Oldman03 Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/25/17
I grew up running a '54 Jubilee, put many hrs in the seat of that tractor.

Now I got a '68 4000 and a '49 Cub.

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Posted By: wabigoon Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/25/17
Cool! I used to repaint the IH's.
The decals were the highest priced part of it.
Are those 30 degree tires?
Posted By: milespatton Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/25/17
When young I drove an old ford, probably an 8N, but the numbers were gone or faded. In 1961 Dad bought a Ford 601 Workmaster. I currently have 150 Massey Ferguson. At one time I owned a 766 International. I wish I still had it. miles
Posted By: wabigoon Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/25/17
Back to the NAA Ford, and loader.
It had fluid in the rear tires, and all the weights the wheels could hold, inside, and out.

By flaming out, I meant I may have been a better man when I was a boy than I am now.
Posted By: pal Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/25/17
Thought you guys might get a kick out of some of these I found in Utah.

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Posted By: milespatton Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/26/17
Without being able to see some parts, that one with the rear grader blade and tire chains, looks like the tractor that I drove as a kid. Clutch pedal went near straight down, but the newer models were different. miles
Posted By: mark shubert Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/26/17
We had an 8N, then an IH350, that I learned on.
I now own a TO35 Ferguson, that needs some help - paint, seat, and other minor repairs.
The Ferguson is kind of a toy, as I have a JD 5500 for using.
Posted By: Oldman03 Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/26/17
Originally Posted by wabigoon
Cool! I used to repaint the IH's.
The decals were the highest priced part of it.
Are those 30 degree tires?


If your asking me about the tires... I have no idea. It needed new tires, so I went to a store in town and they ordered them for me. Sorry!
Posted By: wabigoon Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/26/17
About fifty years back, Firestone went from a thirty degree bar angle, to a twenty three angle. They called them Field& Road tires, known as "Field&Stream" by some farmers.

The straighter angle wore less on paving, less cupping.
All the tire company's joined in on the straighter angle tires.

The tractor collectors here buy Mexican tires to get the thirty degree lugs on the old tractors.

Clear as mud?
Posted By: Cast Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/26/17
I have a restored '53 NAA Golden Jubilee out back.
Posted By: roundoak Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/26/17
1st tractor I drove was Granddad's Ford 8N. First tractor my kid's drove was same tractor.

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Its the same tractor my Granddad won a tractor pulling contest with a John Deere A. Granddad and his brother were having a few in one of the local watering holes and the subject came up about tractor power.

After a few beers my Uncle said his brother's Ford 8N could out pull the John Deere that a guy was bragging about. A bet was made and a date set for the pull.

Sunday afternoon the two tractors backed up and the draw bars were bolted together, a hat was thrown and the A pulled the 8N towards the finish line until Granddad pulled the three-point lever, stopped the A and pulled it across the finish line. grin
Posted By: milespatton Re: The Old Tractors? - 02/26/17
At the circus one time, in Des Arc, Arkansas they hooked an Elephant to a John Deere, either an A or a B, I don't know which. Even as little as I was, I saw the handler making the elephant back up for a couple of steps, then it had enough and pulled the tractor like it was a toy. miles
Posted By: johndeere60 Re: The Old Tractors? - 03/08/17
care if i keep this post alive, tractors i got a rare 1955 johndeere60 orchard gas only , john deere 1953 60 row crop i use, and a john deere 430 project, what did i learn on well my grandmother grand father had two john deere A's 1946 and a 1948, the garden tractor was a 9n ford and a 1939 john deere L, Field TRACTOR WAS A FARMALL 350 DIESEL and a john deere 50, we would put up over 10,000 square bales a year, hay time come the farmall would run the mower then the new holland kicker baler, jd 50 would rake and the 2 john deere a's would pull the hay wagons to the barns, back then we was running 60 head calving, then the 90s come my uncle got a 1956 jd 820 diesel and a auto tie new holland round baler, mid 90s my father picked up a 3020 john deere and old 851 new holland round baler, well thats what i was raised on, from about age 8 at to 17, i could run them all but the farmall it never had much for brakes,
Posted By: johndeere60 Re: The Old Tractors? - 03/08/17
early 2000 to 2005 sold most the cows off when fat 500lb Herford angus cross feeders was only bring 35 cents a lb on the hoof, was no money at all in it, keep 9 head, red cows sold for 10 to 15 cent on the lb less than black ones back then
Posted By: johndeere60 Re: The Old Tractors? - 03/08/17
my father rebuilt the 1946 9n in early 1980s, used all the heavy hop up parts from a v8 flat head, built for lug life not max hp, i learned to plow riding on the fender of it, THE 9n, even with new loaded tires it would hang up pulling 2 12 inch massey harris 3 point plows, we raised 3 gardens one was 280ft long by 80' wide other was 300ft long by 50ft wide other was 50ft wide by 150ft long
Posted By: 5sdad Re: The Old Tractors? - 03/08/17
Originally Posted by johndeere60
care if i keep this post alive, tractors i got a rare 1955 johndeere60 orchard gas only , john deere 1953 60 row crop i use, and a john deere 430 project, what did i learn on well my grandmother grand father had two john deere A's 1946 and a 1948, the garden tractor was a 9n ford and a 1939 john deere L, Field TRACTOR WAS A FARMALL 350 DIESEL and a john deere 50, we would put up over 10,000 square bales a year, hay time come the farmall would run the mower then the new holland kicker baler, jd 50 would rake and the 2 john deere a's would pull the hay wagons to the barns, back then we was running 60 head calving, then the 90s come my uncle got a 1956 jd 820 diesel and a auto tie new holland round baler, mid 90s my father picked up a 3020 john deere and old 851 new holland round baler, well thats what i was raised on, from about age 8 at to 17, i could run them all but the farmall it never had much for brakes,


The Farmall 350 diesel had a Continental engine.
Posted By: 5sdad Re: The Old Tractors? - 03/08/17
Originally Posted by milespatton
At the circus one time, in Des Arc, Arkansas they hooked an Elephant to a John Deere, either an A or a B, I don't know which. Even as little as I was, I saw the handler making the elephant back up for a couple of steps, then it had enough and pulled the tractor like it was a toy. miles


Back when the huge, artraculated tictors were first becoming big, late one night at one of the local gathering places, the owner of same and the owner of a small constuction company, who possessed a payloader, got into a light discussion over the relative power of the two pieces of equipment. Encouraged by both their intake of liquid refreshment and the others there assembled, they decided to head home, retrieve their behemoths, and return to use Main Street as the field of honor. After the machines were placed back-to-back and joined with a chain, one of the contestants (I disremember which) took off prior to the start signal being given, dragged the other down the street, and declared himself winner and lord of the universe. Things being what they were in terms of general sobriety (or the lack thereof), I believe that is where the issue ended.
Posted By: johndeere60 Re: The Old Tractors? - 03/08/17
yes the 1956 farmall 350 has a continental engine it was a nice field tractor, run over 10 hours on a tank , was mowing with it up till 4 years ago with a new holland 467 haybine, it took two 8 hour days to lay down 9 acres, very slow, lol the 467 still had it stock u joints never rushed nothing second gear no ta was about as fast as it got 3rd gear would streak
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